It should move off the US coast as it travels northeast, eventually delivering rain and tropical-storm-force winds in the mid-Atlantic states Friday and extreme southeastern Massachusetts late Friday or early Saturday, the hurricane center said.

Parts of North Carolina may receive up to 8 more inches of rain Friday, for two-day totals up to 15 inches, forecasters said.

‘We don’t need people leaving their homes’

Earlier in the week, Dorian flattened homes and wiped out neighborhoods in the Bahamas, leaving at least 30 people dead. It then closed in on the southeastern coast of the United States, where five deaths have been blamed on the storm so far.

“I saw the circular clouds and was going to take a little video, and the funnel came out of nowhere,” he tweeted.

South Carolina turns to recovery

Charleston’s mayor says that efforts to recover begin Friday.

“Yes, today was Dorian Day in Charleston, and I am happy to bid him farewell,” Mayor John Tecklenburg said Thursday. “To the hundreds of officials, and the outstanding citizens of Charleston, thank you. Tomorrow, we all unite as Team Charleston to recover.”

Authorities in Charleston are working to address power outages, downed trees and flooded roadways.